Your brother's dating an actress? Time to abandon all morals, obviously.
Iman is surprised that her brother Hossam is in a relationship with actress Nahed. His ideal image collapses and she decides to abandon her morals. She invites Sherif to the house in the absence of Hossam,and he discovers that she has no previous experiences so he decides to marry her.
Acting
Nour El-Sherif's calculated charm versus Poussi's escalating desperation.
Production
Cairo apartment sets that breathe 1970s social climbing anxiety.
Director
Ahmed El-Sabawy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title satirizes Egypt's 1970s marriage obsession—where respectability required the paperwork, not the substance. Nour El-Sherif became the era's poster boy for complicated romantic leads.
Poussi was fourteen years younger than Nour El-Sherif; their chemistry defined Egyptian melodrama casting for decades. Director Ahmed El-Sabawy specialized in exactly this moral panic genre.
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